Screen gives remote team members temporary control of your apps. It’s a more interactive way of screen sharing, allowing multiple users to draw on your screen or edit code. Sounds a bit scary, right? But it also opens some interesting opportunities to work together remotely.

If you’re working on a lot of online content with others, Hypothesis makes researching, organising, and discussing that content much easier: through a browser plugin you can highlight and annotate content on any website, then share your notes with team members.

Especially now, it’s important to have a good understanding of your households finances. This simple budget calculator can help. It’s private too: all data stays on your browser, so it even works offline.

This Twitter plugin estimates the gender distribution of your followers and those you follow, based on their profile descriptions or first names. Understanding your gender bias better can help you follow more diverse groups of people.

The Wizard and the Prophet →

Two opposed views of the future

How the visions of two twentieh-century scientists shaped our thinking and what it means for the great challenges we face: “The Prophets follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug’s cry. Only in that way can everyone win!”

Poketo →

Concept Planner

This colourful planner is open-dated, meaning you enter the dates yourself to the yearly, monthly and weekly sections – you can start using this planner at any time without wasting pages. There’s also room for notes and to-do lists. The Smyth Sewn binding lies flat when open and a durable, fabric-like cover is built to last.

Highly recommended read! Stopping an outbreak is never just a fight with nature. It’s also a fight with culture. “As a species, we have spent several centuries nurturing a collective mindset that rejects collective endeavor, and most of us are living in nations that seem perilously convinced that the human race is a thing you can actually win.”

Wow. By simply making behavioural advertising illegal, we could potentially solve a lot of problems at once. An important, urgent solution whose time has come. “The task of regulating an increasingly out of control digital environment often looks like a multifront war against various enemies: privacy breaches, hate speech, disinformation, and more. What if we had a weapon that could bring all those armies to their knees?”

Related to the above: “We have compressed and corroded and finally collapsed what used to be the core of a publication – its relationship with its readers, and the basic notion that one should not make it hard for them to read. It goes without saying that everyone involved is perpetually maxed-out and stressed and scrabbling for a dwindling and finite amount of money in an arbitrary and artificially constricted ad economy that runs on wobbly, untrustable, and easily manipulated data.”